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. ing in the direction j UNITE S T i PA ROBERT S. MURRAY AND FREDERICKW. EAMES, OF LONDON, ENGLAND;

SAID EAMESASSIGNOR TO SAID MURRAY.

.MACHINE FoR DROPPING LIQUID MATERIAL INTO MOLDS;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,263, dated August7,

Application filter-am 5,1894. Serial No. 499,179. (nomad) To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT STUART MUR- RAY, manufacturer, a citizen ofthe United States of America, residing at 4 The Terrace,

Camden Square, London, England, and FRED ERICK WILLIAM .EAMES,confectioner, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at 36ShepherdessWalk, City Road, London, have invented Improvements inMachines for Dropping Liquid Material into Molds, of which thefollowingis a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus forcasting (i. e. dropping or running out) materials in a liquid orsemi-liquid or such like state such as the cream or other material in amolten or soft state used for making gum jellies,fondants, creams orother sweetmeats, 850., and the object of this said invention is toproduce a hand operated machine capable of rapidly and cheaply casting anumberof such confections.

Our invention consists of certain novel fea- -turesfor'accomplishingthis result hereinafter described and claimed.

- Reference is had to the accompanying drawings,'wherein the same partsare indicated by the same letters.

Figure 1 isa side elevation of the stock box mounted on wheels runningon rails. Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view lookof the,arrow w, in Fig. 2.

Fig.4 is a cross sectional view on line 11 Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is-a view ofthe series of plungers removed from the stock box.

a is the stock' box or vessel containing the material to be cast.

b is the framework or carriage in which said stock box is carried-thetop part of the framework b having a flanged edge I) all round insideforming a seating or resting edge upon which the flange a of the stockbox rests and is there secured in position by the turn buttons 2 so thatthis stock box can be thus readily' dropped into its carriage andsecured therein by said turn buttons 2 or easily removed therefrom forcleaning or other purposes. Orsaid stock box a, may be arranged I andmounted in said framework or carriage in any other equivalent orsuitable manner.

0 c are the grooved wheels on the axles c journaled-in the said frame17. y

d is a hand wheel keyed or otherwise rigidly fixed to the axle c in anysuitable manner so that on rotating the wheel d by the hand of theoperator the wheels 0 on the same axle as wheel 01 will be revolved andconsequently the carriage b and stock box a will be carried along therail track provided for same.

e e are the guide rails grooved wheels 0 run.

f f are the funnel-shaped outlets which may be either separately screwedor otherwise mounted in the bottom of the stock box a or said outlets fmay all be carried in a removable plate or. bottom sliding on orotherwise of the stock box a.

g g are the plungerscorresponding in number to outlets ff and which inthe case illustrated control said outlets so that when raised ashereinafter explained they 'permitthe material to escape throughsaidoutlets and when lowered they close said outlets and prevent anyfurther escape of the material in the stock box at. These plungers g areeach secured by any suitable means such as by nuts h to the horizontalbar i-this said bar 1 is attached by any suitable means such as a wingednut, turn buttons, &c., to the hand lever bars j which latter atconnected by the handle bar It and at their other end are hinged at Z tothe support 6* on the aforesaid frame b. By lifting the bar 2' by meansof the handle it it will thus be seen their front end are suitablyattached to and forming the bottom that the whole series of plungers gare simultaneously raised and thereby the whole se ries of .outlets faresimultaneouslyopened while by lowering said handle 70 said outlets areall simultaneously closed.

y y are handles attached to the stock box"- a by means of which same canbe lifted in or out of the carriage b-the bar '0' and series of plungers9 being first moved clear out of the way by detaching the same from thehandle bars j and then turning the latter back on thehinge pins Z andthen liftingout bar 'iand plungers g thereon.

The molds or receptacles into or.ont0 which the material is to be castare placed between the guide rails e which latter may extend 'for anylength required and these molds, &c., may advantageously be of thewell-known flexible character now in use for dropping sweetmeats andfurthermore the position of each hole or depression in each row of holesin said mold exactly correspond respectively with one of the outlets f,and each row or otherwise of holes corresponds to the row or otherwiseof outlets f.

The guide bars or longitudinal sleepers w carrying-the guide rails e incombination with thelower longitudinal sleepers 4) form a guideway ormeans to adjust and keep the molds (which exactly fit in between theguide bars w-restiug on the sleepers 2:) in the proper position.

The operation is as follows: The stock box a is filled or partiallyfilled with material when ready to be cast and the stock box is placedin position on the traveling carriage b. The operator now takes hold ofthe handle In with one hand and takes hold of the driving wheel d withthe other hand and by the latter moves the stock box a into the desiredposition over the molds and then with the other hand raises the plungerand thereby drops or casts some of the material from each of the outletsf simultaneously the return downward movement of the plungers g stoppingthese outlets, and also serving to force out or assist in forcing outthe material from each outletif required. By revolving the driving wheeld the operator now moves the stock box so as to bring the outlets overthe next row or otherwise of holes in the mold which are simultaneouslyfilled as before and so on until all the rows (or otherwise) in the moldare filledthen the stock box is moved on over the next mold which isquickly filled as before while meantime each mold as the same is filledis removed from between the guide rails and replaced by empty molds. Theoperation of this apparatus, replacing the molds, 820., being easily andcheaply effected (by boys or girls-4f desired.) It will thus be seenthat the movement of the stock box over the molds and the means forsimultaneously dropping the material from a number of outletsrespectively are both independently under the hand control of theoperator and this separate and independent hand control constitutes avery essential feature of the present invention.

Having thus described our inveutiou,what

I we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with atraveling stock box for viscous liquid provided with a series of outletopenings in its bottom, of a series of tapering plungers for closingsaid openings, a bar connecting the tops of said plungers, a hand leverhinged to the top of said box and detachably connected with said bar andadapted to regulate the movement of said plungers, and a hand knob formoving said traveling stock box, substantially as and for the purposesdescribed.

R. S. MURRAY. F. W. EAMES.

Witnesses:

HENRY BIRKBECK, 34 Southampton Buildings, London, Eng= land.

GEORGE W. KEY, 31 Church Street, London, N., England.

